5.Write
three sentences at the end of your partner’s journal that show a connection you
made, or a comment you have.

6.Trade papers back, and read each
other’s comments.J

Drop this off at my candle now for a
daily grade, please.

Partner Journal Response

1.Write your partner three sentences of specific comments,
and aim for academic language in your writing.

a.At least three detailed sentences

i.Agree.

ii.Tell him/her if
the journal made you think of a new idea/or something you hadn’t considered.

iii.Add on to an idea
he/she says.

iv.Compliment their
vocabulary—diction!

v.Disagree,
respectfully.J

vi.Relate to something

b.Signed by you

Quiet,
Independent Work Time

1.The
rest of the block is dedicated work time for you.Work your way down the list of items
below—all the information you need should be there.

2.If
you have a question over any of the work, please come back to my table, and we
will talk quietly, so we don’t disrupt the class by shouting across the room.

3.Please
bag your computers for the rest of the block.

Reading
Reminder—Annotation

1.How
Do We Annotate?(pink sheet)

a.Mark
metaphors and similes with a symbol.

b.Ask
questions

c.Comment.

d.Make
inferences.

e.Motifs
(an idea or object that appears repeatedly)

2.Have
this out next to you today and every day as your read.

Reading—Intro
to the Novel

ØDaily
Grade:Read and annotate page 2.

Mango
Reading Assignment #1 (all due by 8:10AM tomorrow)

1.Start
now.

2.Annotate.

3.Due Tomorrow for Daily/Homework Grades

a.Yellow page 2 annotated (just to show you
read it)

b.All eight character boxes filled in on
page 5 (yellow packet)

c.Complete annotations over pages 1-30

4.We will have a quiz FRIDAY over pages
3-30.You prepare for this by (a)
reading and annotating, and (b) quizzing yourself tonight with the study guide
questions of the first thirty pages (page 3 in yellow packet)

Quizlet over Vocab #4 Words
Tomorrow!J

Creative Writing

Wednesday, 10/16/2013

ED Schedule

o“B” lunch = 12:08-12:33

oDismissed @ 1:10

Visit the copy room.

When
You Come In

1.Grab
your manila folder off the circle table.

Focus
for the Last Seven Days

1.Showing,
Not Just Telling

2.Revision

3.Writing
Buddies—tomorrow—please be here!

a.Who
is eating lunch?(20)

b.Are
we staying through part of seminar? (yes)

c.Me:e-mail Murphy and Bus Barn

4.Portfolio

Writing
Lesson #10:Showing, Not Just Telling

Review

1.Difference
between “literal” and “figurative language” (blue p. 2)

2.Least
Vivid to Most Vivid (p. 2 )

3.Diction
Sandra Cisneros (p. 2)

4.Vocabulary
Variety—pink sheet reminder

5.Imagery
(Emily Bronte)(p. 3)

6.Imagery
(Hot Chocolate Revision) (p. 4)

Writing Lesson:Metaphors and Similes

ØSimiles and metaphors are almost identical—they both compare two
unlike things.Similes, however, are
less direct.They use “like” or “as”.

ØI’m going to give you a prompt, and you finish it with a simile.

oSchool is a
______Prison_________. (direct)school = prison

oMy brother/sister is like
aIndirect; uses “like”
or “as”

§Mosquito

§Combine

§week-old veggie pizza slice(simile)

Simile Notes = page 4 with the columns below

Simile

ØSimiles often compare two things that don’t have much in
common.This makes the comparison more
striking.

ØFor example, someone might say, “Her eyes are like stars.”The two things being compared are eyes and
stars, which are not similar, at first glance.

ØHer eyes = stars

ØWhat the writer wants to suggest, though, is the brightness of
the eyes, or the magic and mystery the eyes hold—like distant stars.

Directions

1.Below are two lists of words.Match each word on the left with a word on the right.

2.Use the two words to write a simile.

3.We’ll share some aloud.

COLUMN ONECOLUMN TWO

Hairbrick

Smilesnow

Puppywaterfall

Cartree

Testsunshine

Start @ 11:47; end at 11:50-ish

Examples:

1.The seven-page Spanish test was like a brick pounding down on my
GPA.

2.The PUPPY had a yelp as ear-shattering as a BRICK through a
glasswindow.

3.His SMILE was as genuine as SNOW in the Sahara.

4.The PUPPY stood as still as a TREE, waiting to attack his sister.

5.The Alg II TEST was so hard, it was like trying to climb a WATERFALL.

Kennedy:The TEST stopped me like a BRICK in the face.

Mariah:The TEST was like a WATERFALL, flowing
downhill from the start.

MW:The Spanish TEST was as hard as cutting down
a TREE with a handsaw.

M:The busy CARS in rush hour looked like a WATERFALL
of lights.

K:Her HAIR was like a maple TREE in fall:poofy, red and falling out.

CT:Her SMILE was as bright as SUNSHINE (after a
storm MP).

MS:The TEST melting my brain like SNOW in the
summertime.

MC:Her HAIR was a white as SNOW.

KF:The PUPPY was sliding through the house like
SNOW on a hardwood floor.

Revision Workshop Time

2.DONE!Sense Poem (blue
page 30)

3.DONE!Read the
directions, and discuss the models.

4.Get a copy of the rubric, and review it with me.What
are you attempting to perfect in the final draft?

5.Review your peer conference comments.

6.Review my comments.

7.Create a revised, final draft of the Sense Poem.

8.Print a final copy, and use it to fill out the rubric carefully.

9.Thoughtfully complete the rubric.

Sense Poem Revision Turn-In Order

ØTop:Rubric

ØBottom:Final Draft

ØStaple, and put it next to my candle.

Revision

1.Get out your pink revision sheet, and re-read the requirements and
expectations.You are responsible for
that information.

2.On google drive, pull up one of your four revision choices, and
revise until I stop you, please.Remember, revisions are ten percent of your entire term grade.